New Design of Solarux CSP Greenhouse, Produces And Dries Agricultural Products In Addition To Electricity Generation

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 12 - 17, 31.03.2018

Ozgu Incesu Evren Toygar Alisan Toygar Tufan Bayram

Abstract

As we all know, world population is growing rapidly in recent decades. That comes with a significant increase in energy demand, and most used energy resources are harmful to the environment. Aim of this paper is to design and develop a Greenhouse system that generates the electricity by CSP dish mirrors which are on the roof of greenhouse, produces agricultural products and dries agricultural products with the remaining energy from the electricity generation. CSP dish mirror design has the features of parabolic mirror system but Solarux system has flat mirrors instead of high cost parabolic mirrors, so it is much cheaper. Also Solarux system follows the sun in two axis, which increases its efficiency. Agricultural production and product drying in greenhouse provides extra incomes to the system, so cost effectiveness of the project increases. It will be possible to grow agricultural products, dry agricultural products and generate electricity for 12 months in the greenhouse with this presented project. Solidworks 2016 program package has been used for the designing the parts of the greenhouse.

Keywords

Greenhouse, two axis tracking, CSP, electricity generation, renewable energy, solar, dish mirror, agricultural production

References

• Prof. Dr. Ilhami Colak